as in dials
to make a telephone call to
our friend rang us up to see if we wanted to go to a cricket match
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as in wins
to obtain (as a goal) through effort
touted the many diplomatic triumphs that the president supposedly rang up in his first term
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The keyboard and touchpad are areas where Dell dials back from the higher-end XPS 14 and 16.
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Subsequently, the series dials back to Vienna in 1781 (10 years before Mozart’s death).
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The win and Australia’s own 1-0 start to the tournament ensure that whoever wins Friday will clinch a spot in the knockout round.
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The question for founders right now is not whether Big AI wins, but how can smaller companies survive and thrive alongside it.
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Traffic is expected to be impacted in Midtown Manhattan as the city initiates shuttle bus corridors and closed streets around Penn Station for fans going to MetLife Stadium, which FIFA calls New York New Jersey Stadium.
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The Mayo Clinic’s current position, updated September 2024, calls infrared benefits preliminary.
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The tabulations continue until a candidate achieves a majority of the total votes.
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While Ukraine now fields large numbers of small interceptor drones, and achieves around a 90% intercept rate against Russian Shaheds, there is no sign of equivalent interceptors in Moscow.
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In the movie, Yetnikoff phones up MTV CEO Bob Pittman and starts screaming at him.
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Our one peek into it comes when Darren phones Evy to pressure her to ditch her mom and come to a party.
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By the end of the novel, Sun Wukong attains Buddhahood.
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But if a person seeking status is already wealthy or attains corporate sponsorship, for instance, a viable pathway to citizenship opens up, even if only slightly.
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Your 11th House of Friends gains steady, reliable traction, and small teamwork wins start adding up steadily in visible ways.
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One of the central ideas behind UrbanKore is that art gains deeper meaning when experienced in the environment that helped shape it.
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Christiano Ronaldo scores a goal against Morocco to become the all-time leading European goalscorer (85) in international compitition.
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Almost every force scores unfavorably.
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“Rings (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rings%20%28up%29. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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